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Excerpts from Doug Hellmann's message of 2018-01-12 15:37:42 -0500:
> Since we are discussing goals for the Rocky cycle, I would like to
> propose a change to the way we track progress on the goals.
> 
> We've started to see lots and lots of changes to the goal documents,
> more than anticipated when we designed the system originally. That
> leads to code review churn within the governance repo, and it means
> the goal champions have to wait for the TC to review changes before
> they have complete tracking information published somewhere. We've
> talked about moving the tracking out of git and using an etherpad
> or a wiki page, but I propose that we use storyboard.
> 
> Specifically, I think we should create 1 story for each goal, and
> one task for each project within the goal. We can then use a board
> to track progress, with lanes like "New", "Acknowledged", "In
> Progress", "Completed", and "Not Applicable". It would be the
> responsibility of the goal champion to create the board, story, and
> tasks and provide links to the board and story in the goal document
> (so we only need 1 edit after the goal is approved). From that point
> on, teams and goal champions could collaborate on keeping the board
> up to date.
> 
> Not all projects are registered in storyboard, yet. Since that
> migration is itself a goal under discussion, I think for now we can
> just associate all tasks with the governance repository.
> 
> It doesn't look like changes to a board trigger any sort of
> notifications for the tasks or stories involved, but that's probably
> OK. If we really want notifications we can look at adding them as
> a feature of Storyboard at the board level.
> 
> How does this sound as an approach? Does anyone have any reservations
> about using storyboard this way?
> 
> Doug

Since the feedback has been positive, I wrote up the policy changes to
go along with this. Please continue any discussion of the idea over
there.

https://review.openstack.org/534443

Doug